| Description | Letter from Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, to Emma Berry, Edinburgh, happy to clear up their quarrel over not writing, comments on her travels, mention of their visit to the manufactories in Birmingham, his own tour around Morayshire, Inverness, Kinrara and Strathspey, progress of his winter study programme, deaths of three professors at King's College, the inadequacy of the Professor of Medicine ('half crack-brained'), using his influence with Dr. Jack, now principal, his friend Murray has been posted to Paris, his maid has broken his barometer, the progress of his drawing practice, reading Alison's sermons [Alison was Emma's rector in Edinburgh], looking forward to two new books, 3 December 1815 |